Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 2 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 3 | If nothing is readily available you find yourself trying to thaw out the cheesecake from the bottom of the freezer ( nobody will miss it , will they ? ) , or working out how long it will take you to get to the shops and back with a bag-full of goodies . |
| 4 | One takes me along St Mary 's Villas and Barrowclough Road , past the old municipal baths and the new DIY and wholesale paint centre ; while the other means cutting down Lennox Gardens , taking that street whose name I always forget into Rumsey Road , then past the row of shops and back into the High Street . |
| 5 | Whereas fairly large areas in the Yorkshire Dales and up to the Scottish Borders were not heavily forested , the Teesdale region had this peculiar sugar limestone , creating a very thin , calcium-rich soil which never produced dense grass cover . |
| 6 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
| 7 | They then fought their way past the Dark Elf patrols and back to the Inner Sea . |
| 8 | Through the quarry and the conifer woods and out into the main road where the yellow lights make you look like something in a Hammer horror . |
| 9 | The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others . |
| 10 | The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media . |
| 11 | The biggest surprise here is that the TBM 700 seems to shrink into a much smaller and lighter aircraft when flown below ninety knots and down to the gear-down/flaps-down 61-knot stall speed . |
| 12 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 13 | Even in the Regal Arms they were liable to think it unusual if anybody carried a body or a badly wounded man down the stairs and out through the front door . |
| 14 | Five minutes later , without giving herself time to think , be disappointed that she probably would n't see him again after today , she ran lightly down the stairs and out through the front door . |
| 15 | With her mind reeling , Merrill walked ahead of him down the stairs and out into the windy street . |
| 16 | He hunched his shoulders and stamped his way defiantly down the rest of the stairs and out into the cobbled street . |
| 17 | But , turning obediently , she led the way down the stairs and out into the bright heat of the day . |
| 18 | I let myself into our corridor , soundlessly , and crept down the back stairs and out of the back door without hearing or seeing any member of the Home staff . |
| 19 | ‘ They 'll come down the servants ’ stairs and out at the back door . |
| 20 | It is a ten-minute ride to the road , first on a narrow path along the side of a field of parched maize and groundnuts , then down across the stream , up the smooth rounded granite and along the top , passing by my neighbour 's home , down round her fields under the trees and up to the tarred road . |
| 21 | Its usual course flows from above the lorry park , round the trees and down to the lower bridge which marks its normal width . |
| 22 | Thread cord up through rings and corresponding screw-eyes and out to the operational side . |
| 23 | He glanced round the corner of the altar and watched a German officer who had been hit in the side of the head slump through the curtains and out of a wooden box on to the stone floor . |
| 24 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 25 | Then it 's group shots and off to a hired room for buffet lunch , more lager , TV interviews and an assessment of the day 's events . |
| 26 | The Sergeant came barging into the Nissen hut , bawling out , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , if you have any homes to go to , get out of those pits and down to the orderly room , sharpish , or you wo n't get a bloody pass . ’ |
| 27 | But they turn out to be of Ancient History , so the flies blunder moodily against the parlour window beyond which the June sun ripens tempting dinners at roadsides and down by the strong-smelling beach ; day after day after day . |
| 28 | In the meantime , public relations impresario , Regis McKenna Inc , has been hired to distract attention away from ACE 's bevy of erstwhile operating systems and on to the Advanced RISC Computing hardware . |
| 29 | Her gaze went , unbelievingly , from the pink and blue polka-dot material draping the dressing-table to the bright pink carpet patterned with impossible blue roses and on to the royal-blue wallpaper with its equally impossible pink pansies . |
| 30 | I wandered back down the stairs , past the washing draped over the bannisters and out onto the broken glass of the yard . |